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NVIDIA has today officially introduced the new GeForce GTX TITAN,
designed to power gaming PCs including personal gaming
supercomputers and small form-factor PCs.

"GeForce GTX TITAN is a beast of a GPU -- and the only one in the
world powerful enough to play any game at any resolution at any
time," said Scott Herkelman, general manager of the GeForce
business unit at NVIDIA. "And yet, all of this immense power is housed in a sleek, sexy design, so gamers can also build
beautifully-designed PC gaming machines about the size of a gaming
console, yet magnitudes more powerful and always upgradeable."

GTX TITAN is built with the same NVIDIA Kepler architecture that
powers Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly launched Titan
supercomputer, which is number 1 in the list of the Top500
supercomputers in the world.

The graphics card features an array of technologies complemented
by sleek materials that contribute to the design of the
card, including a high-quality exterior aluminum frame and vapor
chamber cooling.

Performance figures showed below include a comparison of the GTX Titan with the Nvidia GTX 680 in Crysis 3 and acoustics. The GTX Titan is shown to deliver 30% percent higher frame-rates, while it's also quieter than the GTX 680. A 3-way SLI GeForce GTX Titan configuration also looks faster than four GTX 690 dual-GPU cards (quad-SLI), depending on the game title.

Nvidia claims that by harnessing the power of 3 GeForce GTX TITAN
GPUs simultaneously in 3-way SLI mode, gamers can max out every
visual setting without fear of a meltdown while playing any of the
most demanding PC gaming titles. The company also says the GTX Titan is delivers 30% percent higher frame-rates, while it's also quieter than the GTX 680.

The GeForce GTX TITAN contains 7 billion transistors; it has
2,668 GPU cores -- 75% more than the Company's NVIDIA GeForce GTX
680 GPU and delivers 4.5 Teraflops of single precision and 1.3
Teraflops of double precision processing power. The 2,688 CUDA cores mean that some cores of the card's GK110 silicon are disabled by default as GPU originally features 2,880 CUDA cores.

The card also carries 6GB of GDDR5 memory with a 384-bit wide memory interface, and is powered by 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

The card supports the new GPU Boost 2.0 technology, which automatically
boosts graphics performance and supports unlocked voltage and
advanced controls for even more gaming control and overclocking
customization.

The GTX Titan is clocked by default at 837 MHz and its clock reaches the 876 MHz through the GPU Boost technology. NVIDIA rates the card's TDP at just 250W.

GTX Titan

GTX 690

GTX 680

GTX 580

Stream Processors

2688

2 x 1536

1536

512

Texture Units

224

2 x 128

128

64

ROPs

48

2 x 32

32

48

Core Clock

837MHz

915MHz

1006MHz

772MHz

Shader Clock

N/A

N/A

N/A

1544MHz

Boost Clock

876Mhz

1019MHz

1058MHz

N/A

Memory Clock

6.008GHz GDDR5

6.008GHz GDDR5

6.008GHz GDDR5

4.008GHz GDDR5

Memory Bus Width

384-bit

2 x 256-bit

256-bit

384-bit

VRAM

6

2 x 2GB

2GB

1.5GB

FP64

1/3 FP32

1/24 FP32

1/24 FP32

1/8 FP32

TDP

250W

300W

195W

244W

Transistor Count

7.1B

2 x 3.5B

3.5B

3B

Manufacturing Process

TSMC 28nm

TSMC 28nm

TSMC 28nm

TSMC 40nm

Price

$999

$999

$499

$499

The GeForce GTX TITAN GPU will be available starting on February
25, 2013 from NVIDIA's add-in card partners, including ASUS and
EVGA in North America, and additional partners, including Colorful,
Galaxy, Gigabyte, INNO 3D, MSI, Palit and Zotac outside the US.
Pricing is expected to start at $999 USD.